November 2008

I’ve been using the Hamster Applet time tracker for a few weeks now. See the initial post about Hamster here. One thing that was bugging me was that the weekly reports start on Sunday. The work I am tracking uses weeks of Monday through Sunday, so I wanted to change the week start to Monday. …

I recently got a deal on a new 1 TeraByte hard drive, so I decided to document the steps it took to get it up and running in Linux. I’m going to assume you want to format the drive for Linux. If not, then you can probably use the CD that comes with the hard …

XfApplet is a small program that allows you to run Gnome panel applets from the XFCE panel. It’s available in the Ubuntu universe repositories. You can install it from the command line using aptitude. (You can also use apt-get.) sudo aptitude install xfce4-xfapplet-plugin If you’re not using Ubuntu you can download the XfApplet source package …

Adobe AIR is a runtime environment that allows developers to create platform independent desktop applications based on existing web application technologies. Basically, it allows programs that would normally run inside a web browser to be run as desktop applications. One very nice thing that the Adobe people did was to make their installer create a …

I did a post on the Ubuntu Forums a while back on how to update mp3 file tags with a program called EasyTAG. I’ve tried a few different tag editors and found that EasyTAG best meets my needs. It’s available in the Universe repositories in Ubuntu.